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Automated Dispensers: Filling prescriptions looks as easy as the push of a button for Anita Tate, a certified pharmacy technician, in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health System pharmacy. But pharmacy personnel at the VA and other Amarillo hospitals can spend hours looking for alternative medications and converting prescriptions when another drug registers on the nationwide drug shortage.

Steven Line / sline@amarillonet.com

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